Re: git-gui: Warn when username and e-mail address is unconfigured?

["Jeremy Ramer" <jdramer@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 3:43 AM, Peter Krefting <peter@softwolves.pp.se> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> When using Git on Windows, it doesn't pick up a user name from the
> environment, which leads to commits made by git gui (and probably by
> git itself) to show up as being made by "unknown <username@.(none)>"
> (where "username" is the Windows account name).

That's strange. I am using git 1.6.0.4 on cygwin and I get a warning
message every time I start git gui.  I actually find this really
annoying and would like a way to turn this warning message off.

>
> Is it possible to add a warning to git-gui the first time a commit is
> attempted if the e-mail address is not configured, and have the user
> open the configuration dialogue to set up the name properly?
>
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